How do people who don’t experience themselves as simply female or male handle a culture that offers only these two identities? A Womb of Their Own introduces a charismatic, funny, thoughtful group of masculine-of-center-identified people who experience pregnancy. Each individual and couple navigate gender expectations even from the LGBT community that don’t fit their experience of themselves. Follow their stories as they establish their own unique gender, develop their definition of family, grow a baby in their bodies, and birth, chestfeed and parent their children as non-binary masculine people.

BOXX is a fictional webdrama series.It follows two black diasporan London based trans artists as they create a documentary about their lives.This is not just another queer web drama series, it’s a story about people, their loves, lives and lies. Roen is stuck between a past relationship with Temi and a new one that isn’t really going anywhere with his best friend Ahrah. Then there’s his family…or lack of them. Ahrah doesn’t want a relationship but can she risk losing a best friend in Roen? Osko has finally found a stable ground and is now looking back at his journey but he still has to deal with issues around being a transman along the way.

“Brothers” is China’s first documentary to focus on the female-to-male transgender community, a community that endures hardships unfathomable to the majority of Chinese society. It documents the life of Tony, who forms part of a group of female-to-male transgendered people who call each other brothers. The film shows Tony’s road to self-acknowledgement, his troubles at work, his decision to undergo sex reassignment surgery and all the difficulties he encounters on his path. “Brothers” ist Chinas erste Dokumentation, die sich auf die female-to-male transgender Community fokussiert. Eine Community, die viel Elend ertragen muss im Vergleich zur Mehrheit der chinesischen Gesellschaft. Die Dokumentation begleitet das Leben von Tony, der Teil einer female-to-male Transgendergruppe ist, die sich gegenseitig Brüder nennen.

Cinema Fouad is a documentary portrait of Khaled El Kurdi, a Syrian trans woman living in Beirut where she earns a living as a domestic worker and belly dancer. Soueid shows us scenes of El Kurdi’s domestic world: eating, applying make-up, dancing in her bedroom, all while reflecting on her life and experiences. She often alludes to the aggressions she faces outside of the home—in the street—and through her adept defiance in the face of some of Soueid’s more goading questions, we recognize the echoing of these aggressions in his role as interviewer.

Criminal Queers visualizes a radical trans/queer struggle against the prison industrial complex and toward a world without walls. Remembering that prison breaks are both a theoretical and material practice of freedom, this film imagines what spaces might be opened up if crowbars, wigs, and metal files become tools for transformation. Follow Yoshi, Joy, Susan and Lucy as they fiercely read everything from the Human Rights Campaign and hate crimes legislation to the non-profitization of social movements. Criminal Queers grows our collective liberation by working to abolish the multiple ways our hearts, genders, and desires are confined.

#direnayol (#resistayol) accompanies trans* activist Şevval Kılıç during the 21st Istanbul LGBTI Pride caught up in the reflexions of carnivalesque Gezi Park Uprising. #direnayol is a turbulent audiovisual journey witnessing a wind of hope, humour, and solidarity wished to be remembered in the politics of Turkey today.

Soumya arrives in Calcutta to reunite with his close friend Ranjita, a transgender activist, and is in the mood for a good time. However, a series of upheavals let out his insecurities, and inner demons, where Soumya, struggling to come to terms with his own identity is confronted with his own convoluted notions and double standards. Will their friendship stand this test of time?

When I hear the stories of sadness, pain, abandonment and distress that many sexual and gender dissident people had gone through their lives, I wonder, what was different in mine? Why love and desire for me wasn’t so sad? Then images come to me, of my mom, my aunt and my godmother and the memory of my daily life when I was a girl, love and bodies that loved each other were never censored. For the loving memories of my ancestors I declare myself in contempt, rebellion and lived by many, them, us!

Diana was born IN the water dog Chinese year and Gabrielle IN the metal tiger year. Diana is from Colombia and Gabrielle from Ecuador. Diana was told she was a “woman” and Gabrielle built themselves trans. Diana and Gabrielle are two different people, who have each encountered social prejudices, gender violence and their own fears. They discover that, to be happy, no road is obvious.

The documentary FtWTF is a precise encounter with the theme of gender transgression, whereby the gender border is crossed in the same direction each time: from a specific starting point (female/woman) to a temporarily open end point (“what the fuck”). The filmmakers portray six people who for different reasons take on a transgender identity and live it out in different and changing ways. In talks that are serious yet nonetheless not anxious, which draw us in, the protagonists confront the conditions, consequences, and sometimes also bizarre circumstances of their decision. Der Dokumentarfilm FtWTF ist eine präzise Verhandlung des Themas Geschlechtertransgression, wobei die Überschreitung der Geschlechtergrenze jeweils dieselbe Richtung nimmt: von einem bestimmten Startpunkt (weiblich/Frau) zu einem vorläufig offenen Zielpunkt (“was auch immer – what the fuck”).

The Transgender Experience explores the aging experiences of transgender people. For the first time in history, cohorts of trans and gender non conforming people are entering their 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. This film showcases the personal experiences of three trans people, as well as showcasing interviews with activists, clinicians, and researches. Additionally, the film looks at places where trans phobia, ageism, racism and classism intersect, and explores the history of the trans movement. Some of the aging issues addressed in the film include, but are not limited to: Health care concerns, financial issues, housing problems, the fear of loneliness, de-transitioning, and death and dying.

Two unicorns search for love like humans search for them. I Still Believe is an enchanting love story, narrated amongst ferns and lakes; a queer idea and ones determined quest to find true love. This stop animated short is filed with wonder, love and innocence.

It’s Not Your Fault is a short movie about the violence of online comments made towards Indigenous people, and specifically about Indigenous Women of Canada, and the negligence of online/social media outlets allowing hate speech. It’s Not Your Fault is a personal response recorded, edited and performed by myself, as an Indigenous person who has experienced violence by both Indigenous and Non-Indigenous men.

Thomas comes to Berlin to pick up the ashes of his dead son Jan. He clears out Jan´s apartment and starts to follow Jan´s traces, to take on his identity, meeting Jan´s acquaintances and begins to understand him while simultaneously discovering something new about himself

Köyde 17 yaşında trans bir çocuğun yaşadığı iç çatışma ve dışlanmayı kürtçe anlatan kısa film. This film that tells about a trans-child at the age of 17 who lives in a village and experiences inner conflict and exclusion.

MAJOR! explores the life and campaigns of Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, a formerly incarcerated Black transgender elder and activist who has been fighting for the rights of trans women of color for over 40 years.

Miss Major is a veteran of the Stonewall Rebellion and a survivor of Attica State Prison, a former sex worker, an elder, and a community leader and human rights activist. She is simply “Mama” to many in her community. Her personal story and activism for transgender civil rights intersects LGBT struggles for justice and equality from the 1960s to today. At the center of her activism is her fierce advocacy for her girls, trans women of color who have survived police brutality and incarceration in men’s jails and prisons. MAJOR! is more than just a biographical documentary: It’s an investigation into critical issues of how the Prison Industrial Complex represents a wide-spread and systematic civil rights violation, as well as a historical portrait of diverse LGBT communities, told with love and humor, and personalized through the lens of a vibrant and charismatic woman.

Nina lives her life as if it were her last day. She refused to be socialized as male. Nina ́s Colour Film is the portrait of a person for whom it was always about wanting more, than just life in a corset of social norms, and who therefore pust it at risk.

Follow my journey as a Queer Gender Non Conforming Nigerian as I connect with Òrìṣà tradition and the powerful legacy of my great grandmother, Chief Moloran Ìyá Ọlọ́ya. This personal and political story vibrantly investigates the heritage of command, mythology, gender fluidity and the hidden truth behind the power of indigenous Yorùbá spirituality.

A Thai trans-masculine mixie from the diaspora ‘returns’ to Thailand ten years after transitioning, and re-connects with their father, an aging anti/hero, on different terms and terrains. The film follows the eccentric pair around Bangkok and Sri Racha, through fast and slow flows and jams of traffic and communication. In rough shots (smartphone and imovie), and to the exhuberant rhythms of Thai country music, the two navigate silence, gaps in language and personality, two cities, and six different modes of transit. Ein thailändische trans-maskuline Mixie aus der Diaspora kehrt zehn Jahre nach dem Transitioning nach Thailand “zurück”, und nimmt unter anderenBedingungen und auf verschiedenen Terrains wieder Verbindung zum Vater auf, einem alterndem anti/Held.

A love story between two young men where one is the androgynous Sebastian and one is Andreas who is not gay. They form a unity. It’s them against the polished Swedish Ikeasociety. They dream about escaping boredom and the risk of becoming what everyone else is. And then there is Ellie – the superwoman growing inside of Sebastian who Andreas loves and fears. This is the summer when everything happens and both of them will choose paths that will determinate their lives forever. It’s a battle for love where Sebastian finally has to realise that he has to let Ellie loose, find the strength within himself and not let his happiness depend on someone else.

A documentary about a courageous and very special Colombian woman; Diana. Her days are completely filled with helping the people in her community. The director saw what problems her community faces, and that the people there can use -and deserve- support. They face much more complicated problems than we do here in Europe. She combines prostitution, human rights activism and her career as a lawyer to change the world around her into a better one.

“T” is a photo album that cherishes moments of territorial and artistic activism from transvestite activists who fight to become integrated in a state that, by omission and commission, left them at the physical and discursive fringes of society. This activism, flourished in Argentina in times when human rights acquired a fundamental relevance, works on different trenches to restore economic and social peace to a community whose average life expectancy was 35 years of age by the time this film was shot.

The series explores what transness and transition mean to the artist as a non-binary trans creature – perhaps it is outside of the gender spectrum; perhaps it is in another dimension. The artist seeks to manifest the many facets beyond the stereotypes that are given to the idea of being trans.

Transgender Parents is about love, life and kids after a gender transition. It shares the struggles and strengths of several trans women and trans men navigating different stages of parenting: from pregnancy, through raising infants, toddlers and teenagers. Some, who transitioned prior to founding their families, experience fertility clinics and hospital births; others, who transitioned in the presence of their kids work to renegotiate their identity and relationships within their families. All are openly out in the world as trans and as parents in ways that weren’t possible 20 years ago.

Triggers” is a short film that centers Black women and girls’ trauma. A poetic journey through the weight of witness, the stories of Marissa Alexander and other instances of intimate partner violence that I witnessed as an adult and a child are central. I talk to my former little Black girl self. This piece honors her struggle and the struggles of little Black girls everywhere. What does it mean to hold the history of a little Black girl in my trans-male body? Or better, how does it feel?